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January 30th, 2017

1/30/2017

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Happy New Year. With the festivities. This week had only with only 2 teaching days and two training days. 

The first training day included looking at emotional intelligence with Dr Sarah Whyte. Dr Sarah was a clear expert in her field. What was interesting was how to understand how and why students react the way we do and how we can react in turn as teachers. My favourite Metaphor from the day was that "Teachers are the Weather in the classroom, we can make a place sunny and bright or create a storm where everyone gets wet"

The second part of the day included mindful practice and exploring how we can use mindfulness in the school environment. 

The G10 students started their ePortfolio presentations. Every student is enlightening and giving fasinating insights with their project. Check up next week with their progress. 


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Week of 23rd January 2017 

1/24/2017

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Our G11 students continued the exploration into world musical cultures. In particular to understanding polyrhythmic techniques. The student came up with their own short polyrhythmic pieces of music demonstrating the layers to combine to create the piece of music. 

The G9 ESL students have started their Rock/Pop module. They have been learning the skills to becoming a drummer using Musical Futures "Just Play" techniques.  

G9 have composed their own Radio Jingle as the final part of their songwriting course. They were given a product that they had to write a 30 second radio jingle for using Garageband as part of this process. 

G10 are busy in preparation for their ePortfolio presentations happening next week. They are presenting two songs that inspired change/social justice.  http://hsmusiciss.weebly.com/eportfolio

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Week Beginning 9th January 2016: High Music meets Elementary

1/16/2017

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This week our grade 11 students had the fantastic opportunity of showing their musical instruments and their musical playing skills to the grade 3 students. After a short introduction the grade 3 students explored in groups the instruments with the grade 11 students. The grade 11 students demonstrated and answered questions about their playing and their instrument. The grade 3 were able to ask questions about dynamics, timbre/tone colour, pitch. The grade 11 students included Uta, Naoki, Tristan, Youngjin, Mhairie Flor, Soo Yun and Siu Jun. 
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    I am the Projects Coordinator and Senior School Music teacher at XCL World Academy in Singapore. I have over 10 year of IB teaching experience and working on bringing great learning experiences and opportunities to students.  
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